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New Stream Wizard</H1>
<P CLASS="Intro">

This wizard helps you create a new stream in a repository. The two most typical
reasons why new streams are created are:&nbsp;
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  <li>
    <p CLASS="Para">To fix a bug in an old version of a project, or</li>
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    <p CLASS="Para">To store project variants or a developer's private work.&nbsp;</li>
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<p CLASS="Para"> This is referred to as <i>splitting</i> a stream.&nbsp; When splitting a stream, you always split at a pre-defined point in
time. This is called the root (base or initial state) of the new stream. The
root of a stream created by splitting will always be a project version. For example, if you create a stream to fix a bug in release v1, you would say
that the new stream is rooted at v1 (or based on v1).&nbsp;
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<p CLASS="Para"> After you have created a new stream you will have to either add
a project version (select the stream then choose the Copy Version To Stream...
menu item) or release
a project to the stream in order to add contents to the stream.
</p>
<p CLASS="Para">Generally, you will split a stream with the intention of
eventually merging the changes back into the originating stream. The <a href="ref-41a.htm">Merge
Wizard</a> can help you merge changes from the new stream back into the
originating stream.&nbsp;
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<p CLASS="Para"> Here is what the New Stream wizard looks like:
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<P CLASS="Para"><img align="texttop" border="0" src="../images/Image253_stream_wiz.jpg" width="308" height="398"></P>
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New Stream Options</CAPTION>
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Option</P>
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Description</P>
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Default</P>
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Repository</P>
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From the drop-down menu, select a repository location.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P>
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First repository location</P>
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Name</P>
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Type a name for the new stream.</P>
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&lt;blank&gt;</P>
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<P>&nbsp;Related Topics:
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<P><a href="ref-51.htm">See Streams</a>
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